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St. George Preca the first canonized Maltese saint, is still affectionately referred to by the Maltese as ‘Dun Ġorġ.’ He was born on the 12th February 1880 and died on the 20th July 1962, so a number of Maltese still remember him and his preaching.
He was born in Valletta but the memory of this saint is bound to the town of Hamrun, where the family moved when George was seven years old.
He came from an ordinary middle-class family, his father being a health inspector, his mother a teacher.
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George was the seventh in a family of nine children. He attended state schools, and like any other boy, he had a normal childhood coloured with some mischievous anecdotes!
His education continued in the Seminary, where he started the course of study for the priesthood.
When the date of his ordination was getting close, he became so seriously sick with pulmonary tuberculosis that he was on the verge of death. However he recovered and was ordained priest, continuing to live with only one lung func